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Tourists Watching Nuclear Explosions Is a Terrible Idea But a Great Facebook Photo
I love these images—created by photographer Clay Lipsky—and their premise: “Imagine if the advent of the atomic era occurred during today’s information age. Tourists would gather to view bomb tests, at the ‘safe’ distances used in the 1950s, and share the resulting cell phone photos” on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. When I was a little … Continued
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700 Lumen LED Headlamp Is Like Strapping a Miniature Sun To Your Forehead
It’s probably not the safest idea to be out in the woods, or swooshing down a mountain on skis, in the middle of the night. Unless you’ve got Petzl’s upcoming Ultra Rush headlamp strapped to your head, with 700 lumens to illuminate everything that goes bump in the night—or that you might bump into. For … Continued
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We’ve Been Eating Ketchup Wrong This Whole Time
You thought those small condiment cups you get at fast food restaurants only held a thimble’s worth of ketchup, right? You were wrong. Horribly, brutally wrong. Turns out you can fan them out, meaning you can dunk your fries by the fistful into a sea of crimson tomato deliciousness. Consider your life forever changed. Maybe … Continued
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Our Favorite Headphones, Speakers, Water Guns and More
Here come the dog days. Time to get the heck outta town and do as little as possible. This month we found the speaker you’ll use to pump up the jams at the beach, the water gun you’ll use to cool off, and the headphones you’ll listen to on the way there. For the full … Continued
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How to Keep One Ear Open When Using Headphones
We often think of listening to music with headphones as creating “a soundtrack for our lives.” But when you think about it, the music in films usually plays in the background to enhance the setting, not drown it out. Unless you live in a persistent montage scene (where the music comes to the fore) or … Continued
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Precision Partitioner Produces Perfectly Portioned Pastries
If you’re incredibly anal when it comes to evenly slicing up a cake, pie, or pastry for your dinner guests, prepare to have your mind blown by Animi Causa’s new precision divider. You just jam it into the center of a dessert, make an initial cut, and then line up the guides depending on if … Continued
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This Canon Rebel T3i Is Your Grab-It-Quick Deal of the Day
I’ve never been all that great at photography. I understand the basics. I can get a figure “technically correct,” but the really awesome photographers with the images you want to see over and over again have something special when it comes to capturing the perfect moment. It helps that technology just seems to be making … Continued
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Lighting the Future: 7 Elegant and Innovative LED Lamps
Simply put, LEDs are the future. As the technology matures, it’s now being embraced in a way unlike ever before. The diodes last longer and draw less power than other light sources. And, technical benefits aside, LEDs can also be implemented into unconventional forms much more easily than incandescent and fluorescent bulbs. Get ready for … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Blink
A blink goes by in just 1/10 of a second. What could have happened in this sub-moment that you missed? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, show us what occurred in the 100 milliseconds that our eyes were closed. The Challenge Take a photo that lasts 1/10th of a second. Big bonus points for playing off … Continued
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Twitter Has an Official Election Tracker and November’s Still So Far Away
In case you’re not already sick of the election cycle, Twitter has launched the Political Index, a new election tracker which measures a candidate’s performance based on what every regular citizen is saying about them in 140-character form. It takes every tweet that mentions Obama or Romney and decides whether they’re positive or negative, then … Continued
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These Are the Oldest Stars In Our Galaxy
Like NASA says, these stars look like the thousand bright flashes of people taking photos just before a big rock concert. In reality, they are the oldest stars in our very own Milky Way, captured by Hubble. This beautiful group of stars is the last globular cluster in the Messier Catalogue, discovered by French astronomer … Continued
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You Can Now Configure Your MacBook Pro Retina In Any Way You Want
This is great news! Instead of having to deal with Apple pre-configured MacBook Pro Retina options, now you can freely configure your machine in any way you want. Processor, memory and storage, you can combine them all for your optimal performance/price point ratio. For example, you can select top speed in the processor without having … Continued
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Conan Takes Super Slo-Mo to Absurd New Heights
You know how the Olympics has all of this amazing, mind-boggling slow motion footage? Incredible, right? Conan O’Brien thought so, too. So he borrowed one of those cams to see if slo-mo can do for comedy what it’s already done for sports. I’m going to go ahead and say, yes. It works. I mean who … Continued
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If You Want HBO Go, You’ll Have to Keep Paying For Cable Forever and Ever
A standalone HBO Go service is the holy grail for cordcutters. It means liberation from cable forever. It’s never going to happen. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes just told his investors in no uncertain terms that cordcutters don’t exist, and that forcing people to pay for cable to get HBO will work. Sadly, he’s probably … Continued
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Tiny Desktop Metropolis Gives You Four City Blocks of Extra USB Ports
Who says a USB hub has to have a minimal design or be highly portable? Not designer David Weeks, who created this hub for Kikkerland that’s shaped like a miniature metropolis full of not-so-towering skyscrapers. With just four extra USB ports you’re mostly paying $20 for adorableness over functionality with this hub. But who could … Continued
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Here’s How to Banish All the Babies From Your Facebook Newsfeed
The older you get, the more of your friends start crapping out kids. And of course they pretty much insta-post every picture of their spawn on Facebook. Maybe you’re annoyed or maybe you just think newborns actually look more like tiny shriveled old men. Unbaby.me, a Chrome extension that removes all the babies from your … Continued
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Ten Power Tools Everyone Should Own
Tempting as it may be to covet plunge routers, nail guns, and compound sliding miter saws, they’re just not right for most guys. A tiny drill, though, that’s something no junk drawer should go without. Here’s a look ten power tools a regular homeowner ought to have on hand, a list Gizmodo put together as … Continued
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How to Make Beer and Influence People
Ok, real talk. How cool are you? Like, on a scale of 1-10. A six, maybe a seven? Are you content with that? Wouldn’t you like for more people to like you more? Well, friend, it’s totally possible. “How?” you might ask. It’s easy! Give them beer! “But beer costs money,” you say. Not if … Continued
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Don’t Worry, You Won’t Actually Smash This Stool
It’s not entirely clear how you’re supposed to sit on this. It looks like a crafty person cobbled together a bunch of matching hangers and said “voila! A stool!” Rest easy, because the Heavy Rabbit stool from Bongo Design actually pretty solid. The 40-pound seat is made of 31 hand-bent steel pieces welded together in … Continued
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